6 True Scary Stories About Dark Family Secrets

Story 4???? “A young man’s life was ruined that night” Yeah your friend’s life was ruined years prior by his abuser, damn him for fighting back???

Story 4, why on earth would you abandon your most fond childhood friend and blame him for defending himself against prolonged abuse? Then go and tell his personal business including his childhood, the abuse he endured from his family, and his deepest secret to the world? Terrible and cowardly person.

Okay, dear person in story 3, you have no right to be mad at your mom for not telling you about her being raped as a child. You're not entitled to her pain.

I'm so pleased that the people in the comments agree about story 4. OP lacks empathy, loyalty, and logic. Their friend endured hospitalizing abuse at the hands of their brother for years -- but OP reduced it all down to "anger issues." As if he, out of nowhere, chose to push them down the stairs in a murderous rage.

Story 4: anger issues??? He was ABUSED, his abuser came back, like what??

Story 4: your friend is abused for years and as an adult you find out he defended himself against his abuser so your answer is to abandon him when he clearly needed help? 🤨 Great friend you are

story 4 is a great example of someone who grew up in such a sheltered, white-picket fence life that they've never had to endure anything themselves and only sense of justice is whatever their pig lord lawmakers decide is law at the time. aka bootlickers. i feel so bad for his friend, he deserves so much support

Story 4: Casey deserved it. It was self defense and anyone reacting with horror at Kyle's actions is disgusting. If dude was really Kyle's friend he would have told him he did the right thing. I WOULD wish that kind of hell to anyone who is an abuser. "Anger issues", hell. I despise people who think it's wrong to fight back against violence with violence. Casey got exactly what he deserved. He was made as helpless as he made his victim feel for so many years.

If you really hate your mom for not telling you she was raped and abused just because you didn’t have all of the information you wanted you need help 🤷🏻‍♀️

Story 5: my dude, you have to tell her. If it destroys your relationship that is just another part of your penance for completely taking away two innocent lives who you placed below your drinking. She has a right to know and make an informed decision on who she is marrying and who she has children with. Imagine your kid is in school and a classmate finds out what you did and you wife has to deal with both a very upset child and finding out your secret.

Story 4 is sickening on the posters part. Watches their friend suffer through abuse that at time leaves him hospitalized, friend finally fights back and defends himself, attacker who is drunk falls down the stairs and ends up a cripple, somehow it's the defenders fault? Defender has anger issues?! Defender is blamed?! I wouldn't be suprised if Kyle ended up killing himself given how supportive and helpful his family and friends had been.

He killed a 22 year old woman and her 19 month old child, and was released in only six years! That's ridiculous! !!!!!

Story 4 OP is a self righteous duchebag, and I wouldn't be surprised if his rejection of Kyle sharing his darkest secret with the person he thought was his best friend might have led to his early death. After being abused and neglected by all family in your life, then finally getting the courage to open up to the only other person he felt would understand, it would be heartbreaking.

Story #5 to the alcoholic if you are reading. You have already experienced a failed marriage. You need to ask yourself if you want another one. If she finds out later that you have been hiding something this big since before you were married, she may not just be mad about the incident. She will probably start questioning what else you are hiding if you can keep something that big to yourself. She might even feel like you intentionally trapped her in the marriage before the truth came out. Now the seeds of distrust are sown. Also, if you are writing this story, i imagine there is a tinge of guilt for not telling her. Can you deal with that for the rest of your life? From a logical standpoint, at 37, you have worked hard to get where you are. The older you get, and more assets you acquire, marriage can be more dangerous depending on the spread in income and assets. You are getting ready to most likely spend way too much money on a wedding. Have you figured out how the marriage will affect your business, because if you split, she could have rights to it. Also, the more assets involved, the more expensive divorces get. It seems like a divorce costs more than getting married these days. So, if she leaves you now, your heart hurts. If she leaves you later, your heart hurts, and you could lose everything you have worked for due to all the expenses related to the wedding, divorce, splitting of assets, and risk to your business. My opinion, she loves you for the person you are today. It is possible she will cope with the person you were because that is not the person she knows. However, if she can't handle your past, then it is better to figure that out now before risking everything you have worked for. You can probably deal with losing her, but can you deal with losing her and the life you created?

Story 4 was horrible, The abuse victim, accidentally hurt his abuser fighting back and trusted his friend enough to tell him about the fight and the guy cut him off, what a terrible friend.

Imagine believing self-defense is somehow worse than abuse of any kind. Kyle's life was a nightmare, no one helped him and so he was forced to do it himself. The OP of story four failed his friend. Everyone in that poor man's life failed him.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so upset at a submitter as I was when I heard story #4. Glad I’m not the only one who feels strongly about it! What a terrible, terrible “friend.”

Story 3 gave me way too many emotions. The moms brother is so amazing for protecting her even from their own father. Her son tho.... oh man. That made me livid. Why on earth would you be mad that she didn't want to share such a traumatic experience. I'm sure she would have when she was ready. That just really hit me wrong. Also why would the brother get a life charge for taking out a person that raped his sister. This world is f'ing sick and warped

I'm fuming about that piece of sh.. "friend & forever brother" of story #4. How can people be so lacking of even a shred of empathy and still so self-righteous? Wanna punch that guy so bad. Awesome vid Mr. Joel as always!

When my son was little, he was a hider. He absolutely loved watching us to see when our focus was off of him for a minute and then he would hide under clothing racks and stay utterly silent until we found him. The second time this happened, I had enough and bought one of those child harnesses with a tether attached so you could hang on to your child. I couldn’t even shop without watching him like a hawk to be sure that he didn’t dart underneath something when my attention was on looking for our household necessities in the store. I can’t describe the level of disgust that some women looked at me with for “putting my child on a leash”. He couldn’t sit in the cart as the cart was loaded with groceries etc and his legs were now too long to fit in the child seat part. And because he had ADHD (diagnosed by a physician and confirmed by a second opinion), he wasn’t the easiest to control when out of our home environment. To me, the harness wasn’t a leash, it was a lifeline. I knew he was safe and accounted for. Fast forward a few years and someone that we know took their child to a carnival. They were standing within easy distance to their daughter who was at the back of a line to get a lemonade drink when a man tried to grab her and steal her as they watched in horror and reacted swiftly. He ran away, but that’s how easy it is to have this happen to you. This wasn’t some big scary city, either, but a small town. It can happen anywhere. The little girl was safe, but shook up. It just reaffirms to me that I did the right thing by harnessing my child in stores until he was at a more mature teachable age of understanding.